CARS Nani Roma got the overall victory. Team XtremePlus’ both Polaris, were 1st and 2nd in the SSV class! Our Rescue Angel Truck finished on pos 39.(Scroll down to list at bottom.)

Polaris #350 & #364

Truck #552

Photos: Team ExtremePlus

Pos

No.

Name

Vehicle

Time tot

Var

1

#304

Roma (Esp), Périn (Fra)

Mini

050:28:45

–

2

#300

Peterhansel (Fra), Cottret (Fra)

Mini

050:31:13

+00:02:28

3

#301

Al-Attiyah (Qat), Cruz (Esp)

Mini

051:22:45

+00:54:00

41

#350

Alcaraz (Fra), solo

Polaris

083:30:56

+34:45:11

42

#364

Duclos (Fra), Delaunay (Fra)

Polaris

083:35:57

+34:50:12

Nani Roma

Laia Sanz

Photos DPPI/F.Flamand (Dakar.com)

BIKES Overall winner Marc Coma, as I hoped (left and below). Ladies category winner is Laia Sanz (above). The Estonians have done quite well, participating in Dakar for the first time.

Photo DPPI/G.Soldano

1

#002

Coma (Esp)

KTM

052:40:16

–

2

#004

Viladoms (Esp)

KTM

054:40:05

+01:59:49

3

#006

Pain (Fra)

Yamah

054:50:32

+02:10:16

16

#050

Sanz (Esp)

Honda

061:16:50

+08:03:56

40

#117

Meeru (Est)

Honda

068:38:28

+15:58:12

52

#133

Triisa (Est)

Honda

073:57:43

+21:17:27

Photo DPPI/F.Flamand (Dakar.com)

TRUCKS

1

#506

Karginov (Rus), Mokeev (Rus), Devyatkin (Rus)

Kamaz

052:36:12

–

2

#501

De Rooy (Nld), Colsoul (Bel), Rodewald (Nld)

Iveco

052:43:37

+00:07:25

3

#500

Nikolaev (Rus), Yakovlev (Rus), Rybakov (Rus)

Kamaz

054:14:50

+01:38:38

39

#552

Piana (Fra), Cangani (Ita), Trote (Fra)

Mercedes

113:54:10

+61:17:58

STATS & MATHS

Amount of vehicles

Total

Cars

Bikes

Quads

Trucks

At Start

431

147

174

40

70

At Finish

204

61

78

15

50

Completed

47,3%

41,5 %

44,8 %

37,5 %

71,5 %

The withdrawal rate was very high this year. Everybody had lots of technical mishaps, many so bad that the vehicle broke down beyond repair, or even burnt to ashes. Bodily injuries were not too severe, except one rider and 2 journalists who died – that is always a tragedy. This rally was worse than “normal”, usually about 50% finish the rally.